NatLife Sounds expands D16 Phoscyon 2 beyond the TB-303 clone

NatLife Sounds has found the sweet spot for Phoscyon 2: keep the TB-303 bite, but push the instrument into the wider acid and trance lanes where the original box only hinted at the possibilities. ACID & Trance V3 lands as a €18 preset pack built around 32 built-in MIDI sequences, so you get more than tone. You get the phrasing that makes a line move.

The release was dated June 8, 2026, and NatLife pitched it as a collection of the “wildest ACID sounds” it could pull from Phoscyon 2. That matters because the pack is not treating D16’s synth like a museum piece or a straight 303 emulator with a skin on top. It is leaning into the bigger, stranger side of the plug-in, where the same acid DNA starts to stretch toward the harder bassline shapes and trance patterns that came later.

That is a smart move for 303 people who already know what the old machine does well. Roland introduced the TB-303 in 1981 as a bass accompaniment tool for solo guitarists, then discontinued it in 1984. It later became essential to acid house after electronic musicians rediscovered it, with DJ Pierre and others turning its signature squelch into a whole language. Roland’s own software version now frames the classic as an Analog Circuit Behavior recreation, still built around the iconic crunch and squelch, but with new features attached.

Phoscyon 2 is a natural home for that kind of expansion. D16 describes it as a high-accuracy TB-303 emulation with a redesigned signal path, a step sequencer, an arpeggiator, drag-and-drop pattern import into a DAW, and 19 distortion models based on famous hardware units. Its manual splits the interface into Sound Control and Internal Sequencer sections, with the sequencer available in SEQ and ARP modes. In other words, this is a machine designed to be pushed, not just copied.

KVR’s forum entry also called ACID & Trance V3 the third part of a Phoscyon 2 trilogy of sequences, which fits NatLife’s broader habit of building genre-specific preset packs rather than one-off drops. For collectors and hobbyists who want vintage flavor without spending the night programming every bar from scratch, that is the real appeal. The 303 still gives you the classic squelch, but this pack uses Phoscyon 2 to carry that lineage into more aggressive, more rhythmic, more late-’80s and ’90s territory without cutting the cord to the original machine.